Forms of Government Flashcards
(20 cards)
Civics
The study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.
Community
A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
Government
The political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration:
Direct Democracy
To manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.:
Representative
A person or thing that represents another or others.
Representative Democracy
Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy, is a type of democracy where elected delegates represent a group of people.
Monarchy
A state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch.: Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
Oligarchy
A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
Majority
The greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (opposed to minority):
Minority
The smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
Autocracy
Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
Communism
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
Socialism
A theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government.
Totalitarianism
The practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
Head of Government
The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing.l
Citizen Participation
This is called ‘government participation’. It means local authorities playing a more supportive role, for instance by providing facilities or making them.
Voting
A formal expression of opinion or choice made by an individual or body of individuals, especially in an election.
Legislature
A deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
Anarchy
A state of society without government or law.
Tyranny
Arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
